TechKnack

As I use Win7 more and more, there are things that I notice it doesn’t do that linux did do. Virtual desktops, certain programs minimizing to the systray, clipboard history. Small things, things that you normally would take for granted if you had them, but things that become very noticeable when they’re suddenly [...]

For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been using the Windows 7 beta. A shocker, I know, but I’ve been able to find replacements for most of the software I use everyday in Linux. The biggest hangups I’ve found so far are 1) lack of package manager (PLEASE, Microsoft, implement something to this [...]

Disclaimer: I never have gotten a chance to experiment with Vista, so I apologize if some of the “new features” I rant about here are actually old features carried over from Vista.
So I liked what I saw when I installed Windows 7 on VirtualBox. And I didn’t get to see Aero, and I kinda [...]

When I heard that Windows 7 beta was “out in the wild”, I just had to try it. Since I had no intentions of messing up my computer with an install gone wrong, however, I hastily created a new VM to install it in (after updating to VirtualBox 2.1).
The “machine” I’ve installed it on [...]

Well, it may be a horror story, depending on how you look at it.
Way back in 2004, my parents, like so many other consumers, ditched their old computer and bought a new one, a Systemax Venture with 512MB RAM (if I recall correctly — they upgraded to 2GB some time ago), a 2.5GHz processor, and [...]